Dubai: In a season where Dubai-owned horses have been winning most of the top prizes their luck ran out at Glorious Goodwood on Tuesday as the Clive Cox-trained Es Que Love landed the Group 2 Lennox Stakes, the opening day’s showpiece event.

Adam Kirby, who is enjoying a phenomenal season, produced the five-year-old late in the 1,400m contest to snatch victory from last year’s champion two-year-old Toormore, while Anjaal finished strongly to take third.

The winner was snapping a 21-race losing streak since his last success at Kempton in April 13, and was also notching what was only his fifth victory in 47 races.

Kirby, who is third in the British jockey’s championship with 77 wins, said: “[I’m] really pleased with him. We all thought we were coming here with a massive chance. He loves the track, he loves the ground.

“He’s in real good form and Clive’s done a great job.”

Es Que Love has thrived since joining Cox from Mark Johnston at the start of the season and has been placed in three of his last five starts.

Cox said: “I’m delighted to win this because we’ve missed out a couple of times before with Dunelight and it’s a race I’ve always wanted to win so it’s nice to get it in the bag,

“He has always been a good horse and I am just grateful to have a horse of this calibre in the yard.

“He’s entered well. He’s in the Hungerford [Newbury, August 17] he’s in the Park Stakes [Doncaster, September 13] and we’ll see where we go in between times. I’m just so pleased for the guys we’ve got a Group 2 in the bag.”

Earlier Middleham handler Mark Johnston’s got his Glorious Goodwood off to a strong start when he saddled the first, third and fourth in the opening Bet365.com Handicap.

Sennockian Star, the mount of Johnston’s long-serving jockey Joe Fanning, won the contest with Salutation (Michael Murphy) third and Busatto (Royston Ffrench) fourth.

Only Ajman Bridge, owned by Epsom Derby-winning Shaikh Mohammad Obaid Al Maktoum, spoiled Johnston’s clean sweep by taking second.

Scotland-born and Yorkshire-based, Johnston said: “All three of our jockeys rode fine races. I thought we were going to be out of it [when Ajman Bridge threatened] but thankfully Sennockian Star appeared.”

Fanning added: “It’s always nice to get one on the board. I have got good rides this week so it’s nice to kick start with a winner.”

“The ground is on the quick side, definitely — good, fast ground. I think it was riding quick.”

Later in the afternoon trainer Charlie Hills celebrated his first Glorious Goodwood winner when Cotai Glory shattered the two-year-old course record in the Group Three Molecomb Stakes.

The son of Exceed And Excel denied the Kevin Ryan-trained Fast Act by a half-length, with favourite Beacon, a head further back in third.

Cotal Glory clocked 57.30s, bettering Requinto’s time of 57.51s set in the 2011 Molecomb Stakes.

Hills said: “Cotai Glory has a lot of speed and we knew the track would suit him. We were just slightly worried that his last race was quite recent and today might come too soon.

“He’s had quite a lot of racing so we might just take our time and let him mature a bit more. He is a very fast horse.”